1: Economic Migrants. Jonathan Freedland returns with a new series of the programme that looks for the past behind the present. This week he tackles the problems posed by economic migrants through the story of the Palatine refugees who, in the early 18th century, were invited to Britain as fellow
Protestants by Queen Anne to find a safe haven from religious persecution. Within days of their arrival it was discovered that many of the hopeful and destitute immigrants were in fact Catholic economic migrants ratherthan Protestant asylum seekers. Find out how our forefathers resolved the dilemma posed by immigration with guests including Shadow Home Secretary Oliver Letwin.
Producer Virginia Crompton Repeated at9.30pm